/lit/ - Literature

>>2674421
Just weed as a replacement for alcohol. I'm also interested in hallucinogens although I'm scared I would fry my brain.

>>2674421
Don't. They have absolutely no merit, no matter how many /x/ cunts will tell you otherwise.

Yeah I've done some LSD OP.

Personally, i can't fucking stand music when i'm tripping. Give me some conversations/exploration at night and i'm set.

>>2674426
>absolutely no merit
not much potential downside either (if we're talking about LSD). OP might as well.

>>2674435
the potential downside is that you become an incoherent babbling brook like timothy leary. lsd not even once

>>2674435
>no downside
Apparently it can cause personality changes. You could also self-harm whilst on a trip; people have been to known to jump out of windows or cut themselves.

I'M SO STONNNED I AM IN THE WATER FALLING DOWN TO THE WEEEED WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDD IN THE WATTERRRR WEEED IN THE SKYT SMOKE EVERYWHER EMUST BE WEED EVERYBODY IS HIGH I LOVE EVERYONE WHO IS HIGH WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT HIGH BRO WHY AREN'T YOU HIGH WEED SHOULD MAKE YOU GET HIGHER WEEED BRO GIVE MWE WEEED I WANT TO AWEEED HI BRO I'M HIGH I'M HIGH BRO I'M HIGH HELLO I'M HIGH NEXT QUETSION I AM HIGH ARE YOU HIGHLOOK AT THIS I AM HIGH I HAVE A PICTURE OF ME BEING HIGH I WANTT TO TELL EVERYONE THE TIME I WAS HIGH WEE NEED TO BE HIGHGHGHGHGH HHIGHGH FOREVER

SOOOOOO $TONED FUCK MAN AW $HIT NIGGA HELLA MOTHA FUCKING 666 ODD FUTURE MAN BRO CHECK THIS OUT MY SWAG WITH THE WHAT WHOLE 666 420 $$$$ HOLLA HOLLA GET DOLLA SWED CASH FUCKING MARIJUANA CIGARETTES GANGSTA GANGSTA EAZY-E C.R.E.A.M. SO BAKED OFF OF THE BOBMARLEY GANJA 420 SHIT PURE OG KUUSSHHH LEGALIZE CRYSTAL WEED.

I JUST WATCHED PINNAPLE EXPRESS GUYS :3 :3 : 3 : 3 : 3 :# : # ;3 :3 ;3 ;3 NOW I KNOW I AM FUNNY JUST LIKE THE GUY ON TV I AM THE UNNEST GUY ON EARTH I AM ALSO VERY DEEP I HAVE IDEAS ABOUT WEED GUYS EVERY TIME IA M IHIGH I GROW CLOVSER TO THE TRUTH, A METAPHOR FOR THE GROWTH OF THE HEMP TREE TO THE STEM I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL I'M PRETTY SICK GUYS HEY 4CHAN LOOK AT THIS PHOTO OF ME I'M HIGH SO HIGHGHHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGJH 4CHAN WHY AREN'T YOU LOOKING AT ME 4CHAN PLEASE I NEED WEEED WH YDON'T YOU TALK TO ME 4WEEED

I AM LACKEY
LACKEY OF WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD

I AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETON

I AM WEED SKELETON? I AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETONI AM WEED SKELETON I AM WEED SKELETON ERRRYDAY 420 CHAN FOR LYFE MY LIFE FOR POT WE ARE THE HOLY ORDER WHO PROTECTS THE DRUGS LOLOLOL XD XD X DX DXD XD XD XD XD XDD XD I AM A GENIUS WEED MAKES ME A GENIUS


AND THEN WEEED JUMPED OUT OF THE CLOSET 420 4 LYFE SMOKING TEH CHRONIC ALL DAY ERRY DAY THIS IS MY LIFE DAD YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY MY HOUSE KEY NO I NEED THAT MONEY FOR RENT PLEASE DAD GIVE ME 420 IT GIVES ME THE EDGE ALL THE RICH KIDS HAVE 420

420 IN THE CLOSEEETTTT OH HHY HEAAAHHHHHHHH WEEED IS MY LIFE I LOVE WEED LETS ALL LOVE WEED WE NEED TO ALL GET HIGH RIGHT NOW SO WE CAN HAVE FUN FUN IS BEING HIGH I ONLY ENJOY GETTING HIGH I LOVE BEING HIGH DAD PLEASE GIVE ME MY CAR KEYS I NEED TO BE HIGH PLEASE I WANT 420 402 402 40

WEEEEEEDDCCDDDD IM HIGH GUYSE
SMOKE THE GANJA SMELL THE GREEN ROSES 420 420 420 IS THE BEST THING ON EARTH LETS ALL LOVE 420 WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD

LAIN IS 420 I AM 420 WE ARE ALL 420 IT IS THE BASIC GENETIC CODE OF LIFE

HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME
I DO WEED GUYS
EVERYONE
IM HIGH GUYS
GUYS
WEED

LOOK AT ME
420 420 420

WEEEED

IF WEEED GROWTH IS ARITHMATIC WHO WAS SOCRATES YOU DUMB APE I AM THE SUPERHUMAN I AM THE WEED POWERED MAN KNEELLL HUMAN BEFORE THE SMOKE OF MY TOKE WEEEEEDW WEEEEEDDD XD XDX D XD XD XD XD X D DXD XD X D X D XD X D

I think 99% of people that use psychedelics are doing it wrong.

I take a week off of work, make sure im not stressed about anything and fast for about 12 hours before taking mushrooms in a safe quiet place with friends and no external stimuli. I do it no more than once a year. I always have an amazing time.. not that it doesn't get scary.

>>2674454
>>2674453
Go to bed, capsguy.

GUYS
GUYS
GUYS
GUYS GUUYS GUYS GUSY PLEASE LISTEN HELP
GUYS
GUYS GUYS GUSY I HAV EA PRPOBLEM GUYS

I NEED WEEED I'M OUT OF DOPE TO SMOKE 420 NEEDS WEEDD GIVE ME
GIVE ME WEED
GIVE ME WEEED
GIVEE ME WEEEED
GIVE ME WEEEEEEEEED
GIVE ME WEEEEEEEEEEEEED
PLEASE GIVE ME WEEEEEEEEEEDD
I NEED WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
IT IS MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHT WEEEEEEEEEEED
I FEEL SICK I NEE D WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
I NEED MEDICAL WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
PLEASE GIVE ME WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
I WANTMONEY GUYS GIVE ME MONEY FOR WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDD
420 MAN NEEDS WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDD
PLEASE GFIVE ME MORE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDD
I'M SO POOR I NEEED WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDD

WHAT SHOULD I NAME MY BONG GUYS ITS A HUMAN BEING A 420 BEING A SPIRIT OOOHOHGIOHOHOHOYHOH UNDEAD 420 COMING 4 U PO-LICE GANGSTAS ALL SMOKE THE DOPE

EBENZEER DOPE

I AM THE GHOST OF FUTURE TOKING
YOU NEED TO KEEP SMOKING
NEVER GIVE IT UP
NEVER LET US DOWN SMOKE SMOKE TOKE AND THEN BRING OUT THE DOUBLE BONG FILLED WEED 420 GANJA PLANT OF HOPE

EBENEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZERR DOPEEEEEEE
SAVE TINY DANK WEED TIMMY HE NEEDS TO BE SMOKED

BURRRRRRNNNNNN TH E WEED !1 BURN THE WEEEEDDD ITS' ALL GOTTA BURNNNN THE WEED MAN GANJA TREE OF LIFE IS AALLL SMOKE AND FIRE

YEAH YE AH ITS A FIRE
A GANJA FIRE
SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKEKEEE ALARM LOLOLOLOL OH NO POLICE DUCK DUCK GOOSE PROBLEM OFFICER NO WAY MAN I 420

LOOK CARL SAGAN X D I AM SO SMART WEED IS MY BRAIN DRUG IT GROWS BRAIN CELLS SOON I WILL BE A GIGANTIC BRAIN THE HUMAN WEEEED BRAIIIN FULLL OF THE TWISTING MARIJUANA SECRETS TO GOD BRING ME CLOSER

THE 420 WEED ERRY DAY MACHIE TELLS US THE SECRETS:
W E E D 4 2 0 S M O K E W E E D W E E D W E E D B O N G S M O K E D E A L E R I N E E D W E E D 4 2 0 G A N J A H E M P S M O K E H E M P W E E D 4 2 0 T O K E T A K E M O R E W E E D D E A L E R D R U G S H I G H S M O K E

I'VE GOT THE NEEED FOR DOPE DEALING WEED FIENDS IN THE CITY STREETS LOL I AM THE ANTICHRIST

LOOOK AT ALL THE WEED I STUFFED UP MY ASS I AM THE NEW GOATSIE SPREADING THE REVOLUTION THROUGH SHITEATING PROCESS THE WEED AND POOP IT OUT FEED TO THE GOATS THEY NEED WEED TOOO BRO EVERY BODY NEEDS WEEED

T O K
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH HIGH MAN IS HIGH LOOOK OVER THERE IN STHE KSY WE SEE ANGELS AND EMONS MADE OF SACRED GANJA IN THE DEPTHS

GANJA IN THE DEAPTH OF THE MINES OF THE DEALER MORIA XD LOOOK
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOLKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK AT T THIS PICTUR OF MY BONG

>>2674445
the same can be said about spending your time alone too much and reading books. Yes, if one is not properly mentally prepared, or overuses psychadellics, it can lead to delusions, and one's awareness of the environment is altered. this is why you have a sitter, or an experienced friend, and you dont pop that shit like candy. Drugs are useful tools for introversion and inspiration, and can be a lot of fun, and there are few risks if you treat them with the proper respect and make sure to take nessecary precautions

IT IS THE YEAR 420
WE NEED 420
YOUR MISSION: FIND MORE 420
ITS JUST LIKE THAT MOVIE WE SMOKERS ARE ALL SO HIGH 420 X 420 = TWO TIMES THE 420!!!11!!!1

WHY ARE THEY ALL TRYING TO GET ME
LOOK AT THIS PICTURE OF ME
GO AWAY POLICEEE WEEEDDDWACKERS
THESE ARE MY CIVIL RIGHTS!
WEEED IS ALIVE TOO SAVE IT DON'T DO THAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO POLICE BRUTALITY
POLICE NEED WEED
GIVE THEM WEED XDXDXDXDXD
WEEEEEEEEEEED WEEDE BONG PEOPLE NEED BONGS NEED WEEED NEED WORLD WEED PEACE

CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
SMOKE MORE WEED

IT'S THE GREEN WEED GIANT ALL HE DOES IS SMOKE WEED WEEED NICE GREEN WEED COME EAT THE LETTUCE GREEN GIANT YOU ARE THE SUPER WEED MAN ALL SMOKE BURN HIM UP
GET HIGH LIKE THE GIANT
SMOKE MORE WEED GREEN GIANT
BE THE GREEN FRIENDLY GIANT
GROW WEEEEEEEDD
IN YOUR BASEMENNT TT LIKE IN THIS PHOTO I HAVE
SEE I AM GRWOING WEED SUPER DEALER XD I AM GANGSTER I BURN ALL THE WEED SMOKE SMOKE TOKE SMOKE WEEED SMOKE YEAH SMOKE WHY SO 420? WHY SO 420?

POLLY WANNA 420 WAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHH POLLLY WAANNNNA 420 SEND MORE WEED PLEASE SIR I WANT SO MORE
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH 420 420 420 420 WEED GANJA SMOKE TOKE JOKE ERRYDAY GUYS

DID SOMEBODY SAY

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I'M SO HIGH I'M A ROCK FALLING THROUGH THE SKY STONED MAN STONED CARL SAGAN DOES IT JESUS DOES IT EVEN KIM JONG IL DOES XD IT WE ARE THE NEW REVOLUTION THE MARY JANE REVOLUTION PARTY LIKE ITS 4/20 LOLOLOL XD

HA
AH
AH SMOKE
AH
AAHWEEED
LOOK
I FELL DOWN FROM MY CHAIR
AH
AH WEEED
AH
AHAHAHAHAH
LOOK OVER HERE
I'M HIGH BRO

LOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKOOOOOO

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED 420 FIGHT THE 420 POWER GUYS SMOKE THE DOPE WEEED WEEED WEED LOOK AT ME I SMOKE WEEED HEY GUYS
WEEED
SMOKE WEED
420GUYS
WE ALL SMOKE 420
YEAAAAAAH XD XD 420

IN THE SKY
UP IN THE AIR
420000000 RAINING DOWN SWEET JOY SO MUCH WEED XD I'M FUNNY I'M A STONER LISTEN TO MY STORIES STONER PRIDE STONER 4 LIFE. WEEED IS SO NEAT I LOVE MY WEED PLEASE GIVE ME WEEED WEEED WEEEED

I'm a rebelllllllll
the weed rebel

WEED
REBEL

I AM
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I AM THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH I AM CARL SAGAN LOL AND I SMOKE WEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED WEEED THE END

I AM A GENIUS
I AM GOD
I AM 420

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SAFER THAN ALCOHOL
SMOKER WEEEEEEED
WEEEEEED
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2
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I'M COCOO FOR WEED PASS THE BONG BRO LET ME SMOKE IT HAHAHAHAHA I'M SO FUNNY ITS CAUSE I'M HIGH LOOK AT ME CUT OFF MY DICK AND SHIT ON CAT I'M HIGH BRO I'M HIGH

I
AM
THIS
HIGH
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH WEEEEED

OP here. what the fuck did I do to deserve this?

>>2674481

The safest thing to do is discuss literature. There's no telling what might happen otherwise.

>>2674421
I'm too unstable for anything fancy in the psychedelic department and too prone to addiction for any hard uppers and downers.

I'll just stick with my tobacco and booze. Did smoke weed for a while, but it wasn't for me. Bukowski touches nicely on some of the reasons for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAhrr7JNlhk

Apart from that I have no objections to anyone using anything. We all have our poisons of choice and work with what we got.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD THOSE WHO SMOKE AND THOSE WHO TOKE BREAK DOWN THE BARRIER UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE HEMP HORDES TO UNDO THE EVILS OF THE WEED SMOKING PIG MEN WHO RUN THE WORLD WE NEED TO BRING IT ALL DOWN BRING BACK THE WORLD TO THE WEEED THE NATURAL LIFE SMOKE THE BLUNT ALLL DOWWN I WANT A BITCH NAMED MARY JANE IS THE BEST WHO GIVES IT ALL OUT THE 420 MUST FLOW WE ARE ALL PAUL WE ARE ALL THE MESSIAH BECOME THE WEEDWORM CRAWL THROUGH THE FLOOR TO THE HIGH DIMENSION OF THE NEW WORLD WAKE UP PEOPLE

WEED CURES CANCER
WEEED CURES FAMINE
WEED CURES DISEASE
MAKE IT RAIN 420 LET THE AFRICANS SMOKE THE TOKE THAT BRINGS LIFE OUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHT THE 420 GANJA WE MUST WEEEEEEDDDDD SMOKEEEEE 4200-000000 IS EVERYWHERE WE NEEEED IT WE WQAAAANTTT IT THE WEST OPPRESSESS AFRICAN IT DOESN'T GIVE IT 420 ALL PEOPLE NEED THE SECRET SOLUTION THE GANJA POTION TO HEAL FIVE HEARTS LINK ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONG THE GANJAMAN LETS YOU SMOKE THIS BONGGGGGGGGGGGG HHIGH MAKES US ALL FEEL GOOD FEEEL HIGH

420 IS THE SOLUTION IT IS THE CURE FLY UP TO THE SKY SO YOU CAN BANG YOUR HEAD ON THE BONG ACROSS WHILE UR HIGH SMOKE THE TOKE LET US FLOAT DOWN IN THE WEED PLANE TO LIBERATE THE PEOPLE BY THE TEACHINGS OF THE 420 WEED MAN BLUNT TRAIN SMOKE THE INDUSTRIAL GRADE MARIJUANA MADE BY MARY JANE THE HIGH LEADER OF OUR HIGH CHURCH ALL THE TIME WEEED IS SO NICE IS SO GOOD

THEY CALL ME SUPERTOKER. BECAUSE ONCE THE WEED HITS THE FAN I'LL BE YOUR MAIN MAN ALWAYS SMOKING ALWAYS TOKING MARY JANE PLEASE BE MINE I TOKE THE BLUNTS AND SMOKE 420 ALL THE TIME AND YOU SO FIND BRING BACK THE 420 I NEED IT ALL AND YOU'RE MINE OH OHH OHHHH WEEED WE ALL HIGH

>Stupid 4chan word limit, I've had to cut most of this back.
My own experience with acid was beautiful. I was about 16 the first time, and had only really smoke a few joints before. A few friends of mine had got hold of some and said we were going on a camping trip for the weekend. This was to escape parents.

5 of us ended up going,and we set up camp about an hour before sunset, in a beautiful clearing in the new forest (UK) miles away from anything. We dosed as soon as we had set up camp, put on some music, opened our bottle of brandy, and sat just chatting shit and anxiously waiting. It was all of our first times.

The acid came on strong, and got stronger for a few hours. I felt a bit jittery at first but this passed. I could see shapes dancing in the flames of our fire and felt so connected with everything around me. I didn't feel like an individual, but as tiny piece of everything. The need to talk was so strong, and we sat discussing everything we could think of. At some point I looked up and the sky had torn open, there were brightly coloured galaxies, planets and tadpoles made of smoke, amazingly everyone else could see them too.

The visuals got stronger and sounds distorted. we were surrounded by fire lit trees cutting a silhouette against the moonlit sky, and these started turning like a carousel with a strange tribal print painted over the top. There were tracers attached to everything. i could wave my hand in front of my face and it blurred. Emotionally i was elated, I couldn't stop grinning and just felt so happy and content with life. I could feel all my resentment towards things i didn't like just melting away.

We just talked, and watched the visuals like a television (which looked gorgeous at sunrise) and fell asleep in our tents about midday.

420 420 420 WEEED IS SO NICE
I SMOKE EVERY DAY AND HAND OUT ROACHES TO THE LICE
LET THE PEOPLE GO FREE
LET THE PEOPLE SMOKE BLUNTS
SO WE CAN BE HAPPY
AND BE HIGH AND LET THE BONG TEACH USSSSS
THE SECRETS TO THE TRADE OF THE 420 NAZIS
WHO RULE THE EARTH AND TRY TO HURT MY PEOPLE
MY PEOPLE WHO MUST SMOKE THE 420 FREEE
SO WE CAN ALL SMOKE THEWEEED

WEEED 4 LYFE BRO PASS THE BLUNT LET ME FEEL THE PINAPPLE FEELING THAT MAKES ME SO HIGH HIGH IN THE SKY LET ME FLY
420
XD
420
XD
IS MY LYFE
WEE NEED IT
WEE WANT IOT 420 WEEED GANJA SMOKE THE BONG BLUNT TOKE MY DEALER FEEEDS ME THEBEST SO WE CAN SMOKE TOGETHER FOREVER WITH THE SPIRIT OF A HAPPY LIFE

JOIN THE REVOLUTION MAKE US ALL HIGH SO WE CAN SAY GOODBYE THE THE OLD ORDER MAKE IT GREEN BITCHES SMOKE UP THE SKY LEGALIZE IT!!!! WE MUST BE 420 WE MUST BECOME THE GANJA SMOKE UP ALL THE EARTH AND BRING HEAVEN DOWN FROM THE SKY WHERE WERE ALL HIGH WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDD442000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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SMOKEEEEEEEE ON THE WAAAATTTEERRRRRR
420 IN THE SKY

LIGHT UP THE NIGHT BLAZE UNDER THE STREET LIGHT MEGAMAN PASS THE TOKE YOU BLOKE WE NEED TO SMOKE BURN IT ALL DOWN SMACK THAT WEED ON THE URN BURN BURN BURND THE WEED MUST MAKE US LEARN TO RESPECT NATURE AND THE HOLY GANJA WREATH FOR THOSE WHOEM WE CONCERN THE DRUG MAKES US REAL MAKES US LIVE OUR LIVES NOW WE GIVE BACK AND FEED THE WEEED TO THE BONG MAN DEALER WHO GAVE US THIS LIFE WE NOW LIGHT


WEEED IS MY LIFE IT IS YOUR LIFE IT IS ALL OUR LIFEE WE SMOKE TOGETHER WE STONG TOGETHER THE RASTA PUFF IS OUR COMMUNITY WE ADAPT TO THE WORLD LIKE PUFFS OF GANJA GASS WEEEED IS SO GOOD I LOVE MY LIFE I LOVE YOU I LOVE GOD I LOVEWEEEEED 420 EVERY DAY IM TOKING EVERY DAY I'M SMOKING I'M A JOKER I'M A SMOKER I'M A MIDNIGHT 420 TOKERRRRRR RFEEEL THE GANJA IN THE AIRRRRRRRRRRRR 420 IS SO GOOD I NEED MORE WEED FUCK THE POLICE MORE GANJA IM SO HIGH

LE EPIC 420 IT IS GOOOOOOODD I'M HIGH GUYS I'M SO HIGH SMOKKEREREERREESS UNITE DEFEND OUR HUMAN RIGHTS EVERY TIME I WALK DOWN THE STREET I CLICK MY FEET AND SMOKE THE MARY JANE BLUNT WITH A SWEEEP SO THE GANJA MAY CREEEP ON THE SCUM WHO RESIST MY PATRIOTIC CAUSE OF THE WEEED THAT LITS UP MY LIFE WE ALL SMOKE EVEN JESUS SMOKES NOW WE SMOKE UNDER THE REVOLUTIONARY BANNER GLORY TO WEEEEEEDDD

OH GOD I LOVE WEED SO MUCH 420 EVERY DAY WE WERE ALL HIGH AS FUCK SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE WEEED GANJA 420 IM A RASTA SO HIGH BRO SO HIGH 420 4 EVER PLUS 20 =420 SWEEET MARY JANE I SMOKE IT ALL THE TIME ITS THE GREATST CHRISTOPHER CLOUMBUS DISCOVERED THE WEST BECAUSE OF 420 AND WEEEEEDDD MARY JANE IS THE BEST BITCH SHE SMOKES THE RASTA PASTA WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDSMOKERRRRRRSSS UNITEEEEEEEEE FIGHTTTT THEEEEEE 4200000000000 ROBOTTTTSSSS WHOOOOO DON'TTTT LIKEEEE WEEEEEEDDDD 420 420 402 420 420 WSEEED

SO MUCH FUN ON THE 420 TRAIN WOOOOOOOOOOOO SMOKE ALL OVA THE GANJA SO THICK I ALWAYS HAVE FUN SOO QUIRKY SO HAPPY 420 IS MY LIFE

I've always wanted to try acid or other psychedelics but I've always feared that I'm far too psychologically damaged for that. I know I'm already not qutite sane and I have more than my fair share of repressed emotions and memories. I know I need psychological help but I can't afford it until I'm enrolled in my new uni (so I can get medical insurance).

I exploded from bed and ran down the hall naked, screaming. My parents burst out of their room and they start screaming and I was screaming and they screamed something at me about what happened and I screamed back “The Grays!” I should mention that I can’t remember how old I was, but I was certainly too old to be running down the halls screaming whenever I got scared. This wasn’t fear, it was a panic reflex.

After that I went back and fell asleep - woke up paralyzed. I think I must have sleep apnea or something but I never got that shit checked. Waking up with sleep paralysis in the middle of delirium is not fucking fun. I was convinced the aliens came back and abducted me, and I couldn’t move or speak save for a thin, raspy, repeated “help me wake me up” during all of it.
Then my eyes closed and I could feel them touching me and injecting me in my chest with a long needle and it hurt bad so I scrunched up my eyes so they’d be closed even more. When I did that, the aliens stopped injecting me for a second and I got really numb and I couldn’t feel anything but their arms holding my arms down. I remained paralyzed but to pass the time and try to break the obvious unreality of my horrible nightmare I mentally counted the fingers on each hand grabbing me, figuring that if they had less than four, then they couldn’t be real because they couldn’t fucking hold things like needles. To my surprise, they were very long, nail less and it seemed I could always feel at least five digits, spread out palm flat on my chest, the needle in between them.

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hurr durr stoners are dumb
>we got it bub thanks for the demonstration

I find myself sitting on my bed, the lights on, I look over at my chair, it is emitting smoke or steam or something it looks like, a trick of my eyes I think before the thought slurs off into the retardation my mind has succumb to, suddenly the smoke begins turning into vapor spiders that start to crawl and skitter rapidly along the floor and occasionally onto my bed, I look at them curiously, swatting at them once or twice and wondering why the invisible bugs weren't splatting. I eventually get up and wander out into my living room, I remember an episode of aqua teen hunger force being on, and remember seeing spiders in the TV while I was watching it. At some point I must have blacked out, I have a vivid memory of hanging out with a friend and him leaving a huge bag of weed at my house, I swear it is actually happening though it turns out to be nothing more than my imagination, though I actually look for the weed the next day, it was that convincing.

I come to after god only knows how long, it felt like hours but I'm sure it had been no more than ten minutes at best, I go back into my room once again being freaked out by my reflection as I walk passed the mirror, lie down on my bed and listen to music. The music randomly tears and skips for what seems like minutes, making ungodly tearing and glitching sounds like a dial up modem almost before the music settles back out and sounds vaguely normal again, I say vaguely as my senses were practically deadened at this point and nothing was receiving correctly sensory wise. I stumble around in a retarded daze for what I guess to be a good portion of that night, and eventually collapse at a time I can't recall.

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This is what happens to people opposed to cannabis.

Then a teacher or someone came by, I don’t know if someone went to get her or if she just happened to be walking by, but she sat me down in a chair and told me to rest, and clam down.

Well, I tried to sit down, but I kept slipping out of the chair, and finally I ended up just laying on the concrete, right outside the gym there. I kept trying to get up, but no one would let me. Some other teacher or administrator people came by and they kept asking me questions. They were asking me what I had taken and how much. I wouldn’t tell anyone, so the lady said that I had to tell her, and if I didn’t, then she was calling 911. That scared me, because I didn’t want to go to the hospital.

I had done this before, and if I just had some time to let it wear off, I would be fine.

I don’t remember too much of what happened next, just bits and pieces, but I think my friend’s friend and some other teacher helped me walk to the attendance office and they put me in a chair. I vaguely remember the lady calling 911 and giving the address of the school to whoever was on the line. I remember seeing the paramedics come a little after that, these two guys in all blue came into the office. That is the last thing I remember until the hospital, but according to my friends, who came into the office, I was passed out on the floor and it looked like I was dead. I was then loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled out of the office into an ambulance, where I was taken to the hospital. I don’t remember any of the stretcher or ambulance ride, though.

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Fucking love you man. I saw this shit in an /r9k/ thread a few months ago and you seem to be the same person.

Keep shitting on those druggies dude, and don't you ever stop.

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>>2674535
I'd write more but lazy as fuck. They're too small to be effective unless grouped together, and then I only have about 20 before having to fall back on filler

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>>2674516
>At some point I must have blacked out
Are you sure that was acid? it sounds like datura - a delerient.

I have never heard of anyone passing out on acid with a sensible dose.

>>2674538

May I ask why you do this? I'm not angry, moreso curious.

I don't think this was even a thread on marijuana; more so about acid which many great writers have done.

Fun fact: Sherlock Holmes was a coke head.

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Shrooms are like a fine single malt whisky, while LSD is like wife beater tram fuel in comparison. The organic way is a much cleaner feeling. Neither are sure of a 'good trip' but at least the physical sensations are a little nicer on shrooms.

Whatever you do, prepare to lose the ability to read and describe your thoughts coherently for a while, and remember it will pass, you will return to normal... just not for a while.

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>>2674544
>>>/b/
no /lit/ related take it to /b/

holy shit this place if fucking unbearable in summer

I object to drugs, but if you object to something, just say it and why and don't spam the thread

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>>2674548

What if someone wants to talk about the influence of speed on PKD or various other drugs on Pynchon?

Do it. You will have a lot of fun!

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>>2674551
I think the moral-highground samefag would actually really benefit from a little hit of weed.

>>2674551
caps guy, we've got three other off-topic threads

>>2673774
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I take it you'll deal with them in kind?

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>>2674421

I smoked 10-20 bowls of weed every day for the past two years. I quit 10 days ago, and I'm in the midst of the biggest mental clusterfuck I've ever had to deal with.

I want to try shrooms though, I'm not sure if I'd ever do LSD.

>>2674557
He doesn't care. He is strongly opposed to drugs so he would throw a bitch fit even if the thread topic was "the use of acid in Fear and loathing"

Some people just think their opinions should be thrust upon others without thinking about the issue. and In fact I think it's counter productive. Its like fundamental christians who get ignored when trying to push their beliefs.

>>2674566
Really? I found the craving for cigarettes much worse than weed.

>>2674421

>I'm thinking about experimenting with LSD.

Just do it then. It can't hurt you. Personally, I prefer psychoactive truffles, but I don't really like chemicals anymore, that's just like my opinion man.

>>2674574

I have some pretty bad issues with depression, and as a consequence I have a severe dependency on the green stuff. I can't even fathom quitting cigarettes. Not even a little.

>>2674578

You'd be better off quitting cigarettes and staying with weed. It's what I did, and I found it a piece of piss to stop smoking tobacco.

>>2674586

I can't continue smoking weed for a number of reasons, though I know I'd be better off.

Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.
But after I had reached a mountain's foot,
At that point where the valley terminated,
Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
Vested already with that planet's rays
Which leadeth others right by every road.
Then was the fear a little quieted

nice job dude u surely making those drug users look stupid

That in my heart's lake had endured throughout
The night, which I had passed so piteously.
And even as he, who, with distressful breath,
Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,
Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
Turn itself back to re-behold the pass
Which never yet a living person left.
After my weary body I had rested,
The way resumed I on the desert slope,
So that the firm foot ever was the lower.
And lo! almost where the ascent began,
A panther light and swift exceedingly,
Which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!
And never moved she from before my face,
Nay, rather did impede so much my way,
That many times I to return had turned.
The time was the beginning of the morning,
And up the sun was mounting with those stars
That with him were, what time the Love Divine

>>2674421
>experimenting
No, you're just another shithead who wants to get wasted.

By all means, it's not like you are about to do anything more intelligent than autointoxication.

At first in motion set those beauteous things;
So were to me occasion of good hope,
The variegated skin of that wild beast,
The hour of time, and the delicious season;
But not so much, that did not give me fear
A lion's aspect which appeared to me.
He seemed as if against me he were coming
With head uplifted, and with ravenous hunger,
So that it seemed the air was afraid of him;
And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings
Seemed to be laden in her meagreness,
And many folk has caused to live forlorn!
She brought upon me so much heaviness,
With the affright that from her aspect came,
That I the hope relinquished of the height.
And as he is who willingly acquires,
And the time comes that causes him to lose,
Who weeps in all his thoughts and is despondent,
E'en such made me that beast withouten peace,
Which, coming on against me by degrees
Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent.
While I was rushing downward to the lowland,

Before mine eyes did one present himself,
Who seemed from long-continued silence hoarse.
When I beheld him in the desert vast,
"Have pity on me," unto him I cried,
"Whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man!"
He answered me: "Not man; man once I was,
And both my parents were of Lombardy,
And Mantuans by country both of them.
'Sub Julio' was I born, though it was late,
And lived at Rome under the good Augustus,
During the time of false and lying gods.
A poet was I, and I sang that just
Son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy,
After that Ilion the superb was burned.
But thou, why goest thou back to such annoyance?
Why climb'st thou not the Mount Delectable,
Which is the source and cause of every joy?"

"Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountain
Which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech?"
I made response to him with bashful forehead.
"O, of the other poets honour and light,
Avail me the long study and great love
That have impelled me to explore thy volume!
Thou art my master, and my author thou,
Thou art alone the one from whom I took
The beautiful style that has done honour to me.
Behold the beast, for which I have turned back;
Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage,
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble."
"Thee it behoves to take another road,"
Responded he, when he beheld me weeping,
"If from this savage place thou wouldst escape;
Because this beast, at which thou criest out,
Suffers not any one to pass her way,
But so doth harass him, that she destroys him;
And has a nature so malign and ruthless,
That never doth she glut her greedy will,

And after food is hungrier than before.
Many the animals with whom she weds,
And more they shall be still, until the Greyhound
Comes, who shall make her perish in her pain.
He shall not feed on either earth or pelf,
But upon wisdom, and on love and virtue;
'Twixt Feltro and Feltro shall his nation be;
Of that low Italy shall he be the saviour,
On whose account the maid Camilla died,
Euryalus, Turnus, Nisus, of their wounds;
Through every city shall he hunt her down,
Until he shall have driven her back to Hell,
There from whence envy first did let her loose.
Therefore I think and judge it for thy best
Thou follow me, and I will be thy guide,

And lead thee hence through the eternal place,
Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations,
Shalt see the ancient spirits disconsolate,
Who cry out each one for the second death;
And thou shalt see those who contented are
Within the fire, because they hope to come,
Whene'er it may be, to the blessed people;
To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend,
A soul shall be for that than I more worthy;
With her at my departure I will leave thee;
Because that Emperor, who reigns above,
In that I was rebellious to his law,
Wills that through me none come into his city.
He governs everywhere, and there he reigns;
There is his city and his lofty throne;
O happy he whom thereto he elects!"
And I to him: "Poet, I thee entreat,

By that same God whom thou didst never know,
So that I may escape this woe and worse,
Thou wouldst conduct me there where thou hast said,
That I may see the portal of Saint Peter,
And those thou makest so disconsolate."
Then he moved on, and I behind him followed.

>>2674591
Try taking 5-htp, it wont get you high but it sounds like you need it... look into it.

Day was departing, and the embrowned air
Released the animals that are on earth
From their fatigues; and I the only one
Made myself ready to sustain the war,
Both of the way and likewise of the woe,
Which memory that errs not shall retrace.
O Muses, O high genius, now assist me!
O memory, that didst write down what I saw,
Here thy nobility shall be manifest!
And I began: "Poet, who guidest me,
Regard my manhood, if it be sufficient,
Ere to the arduous pass thou dost confide me.
Thou sayest, that of Silvius the parent,
While yet corruptible, unto the world
Immortal went, and was there bodily.
But if the adversary of all evil
Was courteous, thinking of the high effect
That issue would from him, and who, and what,
To men of intellect unmeet it seems not;

For he was of great Rome, and of her empire
In the empyreal heaven as father chosen;
The which and what, wishing to speak the truth,
Were stablished as the holy place, wherein
Sits the successor of the greatest Peter.
Upon this journey, whence thou givest him vaunt,
Things did he hear, which the occasion were
Both of his victory and the papal mantle.
Thither went afterwards the Chosen Vessel,
To bring back comfort thence unto that Faith,
Which of salvation's way is the beginning.
But I, why thither come, or who concedes it?
I not Aeneas am, I am not Paul,
Nor I, nor others, think me worthy of it.
Therefore, if I resign myself to come,
I fear the coming may be ill-advised;
Thou'rt wise, and knowest better than I speak."
And as he is, who unwills what he willed,
And by new thoughts doth his intention change

So that from his design he quite withdraws,
Such I became, upon that dark hillside,
Because, in thinking, I consumed the emprise,
Which was so very prompt in the beginning.
"If I have well thy language understood,"
Replied that shade of the Magnanimous,
"Thy soul attainted is with cowardice,
Which many times a man encumbers so,
It turns him back from honoured enterprise,
As false sight doth a beast, when he is shy.
That thou mayst free thee from this apprehension,
I'll tell thee why I came, and what I heard
At the first moment when I grieved for thee.
Among those was I who are in suspense,
And a fair, saintly Lady called to me
In such wise, I besought her to command me.

Her eyes where shining brighter than the Star;
And she began to say, gentle and low,
With voice angelical, in her own language:
'O spirit courteous of Mantua,
Of whom the fame still in the world endures,
And shall endure, long-lasting as the world;
A friend of mine, and not the friend of fortune,
Upon the desert slope is so impeded
Upon his way, that he has turned through terror,
And may, I fear, already be so lost,
That I too late have risen to his succour,
From that which I have heard of him in Heaven.
Bestir thee now, and with thy speech ornate,
And with what needful is for his release,
Assist him so, that I may be consoled.
Beatrice am I, who do bid thee go;
I come from there, where I would fain return;
Love moved me, which compelleth me to speak.
When I shall be in presence of my Lord,

Full often will I praise thee unto him.'
Then paused she, and thereafter I began:
'O Lady of virtue, thou alone through whom
The human race exceedeth all contained
Within the heaven that has the lesser circles,
So grateful unto me is thy commandment,
To obey, if 'twere already done, were late;
No farther need'st thou ope to me thy wish.
But the cause tell me why thou dost not shun
The here descending down into this centre,
From the vast place thou burnest to return to.'
'Since thou wouldst fain so inwardly discern,
Briefly will I relate,' she answered me,
'Why I am not afraid to enter here.
Of those things only should one be afraid
Which have the power of doing others harm;
Of the rest, no; because they are not fearful.
God in his mercy such created me
That misery of yours attains me not,

/lit/ is unbearable in the summer.

I tried LSD once. I guess it was cool to see colors everywhere and see straight lines and text get all wavy, but overall it's nothing special. It also made me feel completely retarded. I couldn't say anything that made any sense, and I was completely aware of how stupid I sounded. It's not an experience I'd like to repeat.

I don't need to do drugs. I have a chemical imbalance in my brain.

>>2674699
seriously, why is every post about drugs right now?

>>2674726
Because drugs are cool as fuck, nigga.

>>2674720
That... might not have been LSD...

>>2674739
He's one of the anti drug trolls that are shitposting at the moment.

>>2674739

Nope sounds about right.
any one talking about how they saw "bugs bunny fucking daffy duck" or things of that nature is a liar.
LSD just makes you really really retarded

>Stupid 4chan word limit, I've had to cut most of this back.
My own experience with acid was beautiful. I was about 16 the first time, and had only really smoke a few joints before. A few friends of mine had got hold of some and said we were going on a camping trip for the weekend. This was to escape parents.

5 of us ended up going,and we set up camp about an hour before sunset, in a beautiful clearing in the new forest (UK) miles away from anything. We dosed as soon as we had set up camp, put on some music, opened our bottle of brandy, and sat just chatting shit and anxiously waiting. It was all of our first times.

The acid came on strong, and got stronger for a few hours. I felt a bit jittery at first but this passed. I could see shapes dancing in the flames of our fire and felt so connected with everything around me. I didn't feel like an individual, but as tiny piece of everything. The need to talk was so strong, and we sat discussing everything we could think of. At some point I looked up and the sky had torn open, there were brightly coloured galaxies, planets and strange tadpoles made of smoke, amazingly everyone else could see them too.

The visuals got stronger and sounds distorted. we were surrounded by fire lit trees cutting a silhouette against the moonlit sky, and these started turning like a carousel with a strange tribal print painted over the top. There were tracers attached to everything. i could wave my hand in front of my face and it blurred. Emotionally i was elated, I couldn't stop grinning and just felt so happy and content with life. I could feel all my resentment towards things i didn't like just melting away.

We just talked, and watched the visuals like a television (which looked gorgeous at sunrise) and fell asleep in our tents about midday.

>>2674747
It was developed to help you think better, and small doeses were used to help you study and learn better.

Aparently small doses, recreationally expands the mind.
but regular consumption screws with your head.

>>2674739
Yes, it was LSD. It's also the only drug I've ever tried. I've never even been drunk, although I have tried drinking alcohol several times. I have no moral opposition to drug use, but I don't like the idea of putting smoke in my lungs, so I never tried pot.

I was willing to try LSD because it's very safe and I was curious. The visual hallucinations are not worth feeling so stupid and not being able to maintain a normal thought process. I did enjoy seeing bright colors and seeing everything move, but it was not SO COOL or AMAZING the way I had heard people describe it.

>>2674766
From Wikipedia:
LSD may temporarily impair the ability to make sensible judgments and understand common dangers, thus making the user more susceptible to accidents and personal injury. It may cause temporary confusion, difficulty with abstract thinking, or signs of impaired memory and attention span similar to brain damage

=feeling retarded

I can't believe you've never heard of this side effect.

>>2674766
>It was developed to help you think better.

It was discovered by Albert Hofman accidentally. then used by some psychologists used it to see if had any psychological benefit.

It was the CIA who began to develop it to try and weaponize it. They set up fake brothels, hired hookers, and would dose unsuspecting clients. They thought they could use it as a truth syrum, but abandoned the project a few years later and ordered any evidence to be burned. Fortunately this never happened and everything was leaked into public domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax

>>2674790
Thats just like the warning on the back of all medication.

>>2674793
>They thought they could use it as a truth syrum
Odd and very interesting thing about LSD:
CIA started out hoping it could be a truth syrum, ended up hoping it could be used as an anti truth syrum. Someone interrogated takes it and then talks nonsense.
It was like whatever people wanted LSD to be... it would be the oppisite.

>>2674790
>>2674790
Have you read this one, its just as bad? From wikipedia:

effects of alcohol include the risk of injuries, violence and fetal damage.[15] Alcohol has also been linked with lowered inhibitions... memory impairment...Anterograde amnesia, colloquially referred to as "blacking out"...jerky, uncoordinated movements of the limbs...postural instability; gait instability is manifested as a disorderly, wide-based gait with inconsistent foot positioning... people are clumsy, sway back and forth, and often fall down...alcohol poisoning...death.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_effects_of_alcohol

>>2674824
I'm the same person who posted that I've never been drunk or tried other drugs, so the effects of alcohol are pretty irrelevant to me. One LSD experience was enough to make me want to avoid anything that causes me to lose higher brain function.

I did every drug I could get my hands on as a teenager. LSD was my favorite. I've done it scores of times. Now I only drink and use smokeless tobacco. I smoke weed every now and then when people offer it to me while I'm drunk.

>>2674793
Yes, but there was, well, I can't really say extensive research, scientist took it, and used it to work out complex problems each had been working on individually. It worked. This was of course, before horror trips started cropping up, and before it was banned. I'm also aware of the military and CIA, but since when have they not tried to weaponize something? It's like their default setting.

I'll admit, what I know about LSD is limited to documenteries and personal knowladge from a close friend. I wouldn't take it myself. I generally shy away from drugs. With my preexisting conditions, I'm afraid I'll get a permenent psychosis, or something equally unpleasent.

>>2674845
>scientist took it, and used it to work out complex problems each had been working on individually. It worked

Kary Mullis: "In the 70s I took plenty of LSD. A lot of people were doing that in Berkeley back then. And I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took."

Kary Mullis said that LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Use_of_LSD
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Francis Crick often used small doses of LSD to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

I smoke weed and drink alcohol OP.

I've never done LSD but I've had extensive experience with psylociben, the organic chemical found in "magic mushrooms."

It can be a terrifying and enlightening experience.

The best way to do it is in good spirit, with a friend or two around to keep you in tune with reality.

Weed: extensive use in years past, now I do it occasionally(≤twice a month). Thinking about increasing my use to relieve some of my silly anxieties and obsessions
Alcohol: When I go to parties (same frequency as weed)
Tobacco: I sporadically buy packs, and smoke them in about a month.

Yes, I have a very average and boring history of drug use.

The biggest problem today is... where does one get pure LSD? And how do you know how pure it is?

>>2674566
confirmed for hal Incandenza

>>2674939

two parts bleach, one part ammonia, dash of nutmeg

>>2674885
>Francis Crick often used small doses of LSD to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

Ha. I remember reading about that. Apparently, he ran into the house yelling incoherently, scribbled the DNA model onto a piece of scrap paper, hip checked his equally drunk buddies and ran out again, screaming about paying for the next round.

>What if we all make Nobel prize discoveries on LSD, we just don't write them down?

>>2674942

that book meant more to me than I like to admit

>>2674912
>never done LSD but I've had extensive experience with psylociben, the organic chemical found in "magic mushrooms."

You should try Hawaiian Baby Woodrose or Morning Glory. They are both natural seeds that contain LSA - a similar weaker compound to LSD (about the same as mushrooms). And they are both totally legal to buy.

>>2674939
>where does one get pure LSD? And how do you know how pure it is?

I usually get mine from a guy on my course, but Its not that hard to make if you have a reasonable knowledge of chemistry. The only problem is that its so fucking potent you will be tripping balls even if you don't touch it. and cooking one batch will give you thousands of doses.

When you buy it just try half a blotter to gauge potency, the rest are usually the same.

There are many other alternatives to LSD though if you want a psychedelic experience, AMT(legal), LSA(legal), DMT(legal to own, illegal to prepare), pscilosybin mushrooms, AMT(legal in the UK), Fly ageric mushrooms, the 2C family - almost always pure. and hundreds of others

>>2674954
Have you done this yourself.
Once, a long time ago, with mortar and petzel I ground up Morning Glory seeds. Didn't feel anything.

>>2674976

Its not the hardest thing in the world but getting the precursors is and the process is a pain in the ass.

>>2674976
It's been a vary long time since I last took LSD. I'd be interested to taking it again. Biggest problem... I know no one to get it from. And I'd be concerned about whatever various crap might also be in it.

Oh look, it's yet another faggot who thinks that doing drugs will open up his mind to the truth or alternative realities so that he can write another shit book that, when criticized, he and his fellow drug addicts will defend by claiming that it is far too profound for any such square as myself to understand.

Take LSD but don't bother with writing because it's all been done before. Just trip out in your mother's basement while listening to The Beatles or something.

>>2674980
>>2674980
I haven't tried morning glory yet. I hear you need to eat loads of them because there is only a tiny amount of active alkaloid. You could probably use a supercritical fluid extraction to separate the alkaloid, I may look into that.

I have tried HBW on a few occasions. It contains the same LSA as Morning glory but in very high quantities. You only need to eat about 20 de-husked seeds for a decent trip. I would highly recommend it as you can legally posses them and the trip itself is really pleasant. The high is similar to acid, but has absolutely none of that nagging, back-of-the-mind, crap that can sometimes come with acid.

>>2674994
Try searching the deep web. There's a website i won' t say here but if you look for it, you'll find it. They sell LSD worldwide, by post, as it is almost impossible to find it.

>>2674954

I don't get why people consider LSD stronger than mushrooms. Oh nevermind, the length of the trip. Still the most intense trip I've ever had was far and away 3.5 grams of mushrooms (psilocybes). A close second was ariocarpus fissuratus, a false peyote (total astral out of body experience). I don't recommend the latter, though, because there's really no research on its potential toxicity. The Tarahumare hold it in high regard, but the Huichol think it is evil.

>>2675009

far and away and close second? You trippin'!

I was friends with some chemistry students at university and they made a jar full of LSD. As far as I know they still have it - it was a lifetime supply. On my birthday one year they gave me a cotton bud and let me dip it in the jar. I was off my box for about 24 hours.

They also wizzed up shrooms in a cyclotron and put the active properties into those plastic pill things. Awesome.

>>2674939

That's how you get pure LSD as far as I'm aware - make friends with the people who make it.

And to OP if you're still here - you don't decide to look for acid, acid finds you.

I've tried LSD twice.
The last time i took 3 hits (these unusually big white blotters which i thought were fakes. turned out to be very potent)
I dont remember much.
I kept having the feeling that some really deep shit had just occurred before forgetting what it was. Thats all really, apart from the underwhelming spirals and confusion...a constant feeling of profound realization and forgetting, lasting for about 6 hours, giving way to a partially sober 2 day long insomnia.
that feeling of profound realization is a mere product of mental overstimulation. this often is interpreted for "actual insight" which results in hippies and other low-lifes.

its a shit drug.

>>2675009
I never understand why people give mushroom measurements in grams and expect other people to know how much that is. There are loads of types of psilocybin mushrooms, with three being very popular and easy to buy, and they all contain different amounts of psilocybin and psilocin. at least say the mushroom type with the weight.

Also as a word of warning to you, use an online mushroom calculator. Or the next time you try eating 3.5 grams it might turn out to be twice as strong as the last time.

>Rescued this from the other thread again. Not mine, but I like it and relate to it.
Its not as strong as its made out to be, but will still fuck you sideways. Your ego can break down allowing you a view of reality that you have never seen before. One without bias, and defense mechanisms, and buzzwords used to describe yourself. You can see things, not necessarily as they really are, but from a perspective so unique that it could almost belong to somebody else.

This can allow you to realize a lot about yourself. From things you're in denial about, to negative personality traits. it can really help you to become a better person. Occasionally some negativity you may be harboring can manifest itself in the form of a bad trip, but ultimately this is you facing your demons, and being forced to confront your problems.

On top of all this you have some fantastic visuals; reality seems to breathe, and inanimate objects blossom into life, swirling and fractaling before you. Your perception of sound and Colour is heightened to a level you cant fathom. Even a piece of music you have heard a thousand times seems new as you feel emotion in every note.

It can be an amazing experience if done with the right people in the right setting, and will leave you with a wonderful memory that that will stay with you forever.

>>2675021

I don't know. I think they were cubensis.

>>2675003
You're refering to the silk road?
I'd be afraid it was a DEA sting.

>>2675030

typical brainfucked niggerhippie.
i bet you think that "like, dude everything is a vibration and gravity is love"
enjoy your welfare.

>>2675045
>do drugz
>everything is a vibration
>formulate sting theory
>nobel prize

>>2675045
I'm about a far right and conservative as a person can get. But I'm interested in psychedelics.

>>2675045

Dude, relax. Smoke a spliff or something.

>>2675036
I get Psilocybe semilanceata growing in a field a few miles from my house.

Just waiting for mushroom season to start, or a heavy rainfall. Its my favorite time of the year.

>>2675055
>I'm an irrational, reactionary, and socially restrictive retard except when it comes to my own personal pleasures like drugs.

You couldn't be more of a hypocrite if you tried.

>>2675045
What wrong with you? My acid trips have been very similar to that. Are you angry because yours weren't?

I personally didn't think "gravity was love" because I'm a physics student, but your not far off on your vibration theory.

>>2675052

>implying string theory

get with the times

>>2675067
Thank you for your thoughtful and helpful and bigoted contribution to this thread.

>>2675073
Don't even you fucking maggot infested faggot!

You go on a LITERATURE BOARD and proceed to talk shit to me, then call me a nerd. Mother fucker I could break your little bitch ass with my dick!

>>2675073
fair enough. well, please, do enlighten me; that's why im here.

>>2675077
>>2675076

is this pastafag again?

>>2675076
>>2675077
WAT

I occasionally do weed.

I've always wanted to try some hallucinogenics psychedelics, any advice for that?

>>2675077
Psychedelics have a strong appeal to all sorts of people. Not just hippies. My interest isn’t in the entertainment. It’s what I might be able to learn about myself. That I couldn’t learn otherwise. I wouldn’t call it enlightenment. That’s a little too far out for me. But I believe they can be beneficial.
Have you never known a square who was into LSD? It’s probably not the first thing to come up in a conversation.

>>2675091
>I've always wanted to try some hallucinogenics psychedelics, any advice for that?
>>2675030
>>2674976
>>2674749
These posts are quite good.

Buy some mimosa hostilis root bark (legal), and some syrian rue (legal) and brew yourself some ayahuasca.

You will go on a powerful psychedelic trip where you will be forced to confront all the issues troubling you. You will have to judge your past actions and current situation without the bias of ego, or any of the defense mechanisms you have built to deal with your problems.

It will be hard. It will be scary. But you will Identify every aspect of your life, and unresolved issues from your past, that are causing you to be miserable. And will be able to see exactly what direction you need to be heading in.

>>2675114
Thats a bastardization of This post. >>2675030 And I have read it twice before.

>>2675077
This same post, word for word, just appeared in another thread. Is this a bot or a moron?

>>2675172

Just some lonely autist. He's been doing this for a little while now

>>2675179
Thanks. Will ignore in the future.

>>2675172
He keeps spamming both of these:
>>2675076
>>2675077

>>2674424
You won't have a good time if you're scared, don't bring anxiety into a trip, make sure you're relaxed. I play guitar for a while before I trip, it's how i personally meditate.
>>2674434
Very strange anon, I've never heard anyone say something like this before. What exactly don't you like about music on trips? it's not just the style of music you have on, how loud it is? I've found music on acid to be amazing. I listened to Tame Impala's album Innerspeaker and the pan's were unreal, instead of left to right pan's it was a 360 pan. It felt like I was in the middle of the universe and the music was surrounding me and the entire universe.
>>2674438
What's the potential downside for eating too much fast food? too much booze? too much tobacco? not enough sleep? stress? everything has a potential downside. Because the "drug" is illegal we put these ideas onto it that we don't even question about legal things. Everyone I've met that have done acid and other psychedelics are almost exactly the same as they were before hand, your ideas change like they do from any experience but you don't become Timothy Leary, he was that before acid.
>>2674445
People have personality changes from eating too much junk food. People have personality changes from working in a bad job. People cut sober. >>2674465 great advise.

>>2674506
You can use psychedelics as your own therapy. Me personally the day after doing magic mushrooms for the first time I felt so amazing. My anxiety was lessened, I felt new. You can become very introspective on acid. You may start to think about bad shit in your life and have a bad trip but you usually can gain lots of confidence and be like fuck that man that shit was in the past, why am I letting the past effect my present? It helps you to be more compassionate and that can help you get over some of your problems. It's a good idea to try and maybe think about your problems sober first. Before the trip think about, write down what you want to get out the trip. Write down I want to overcome this problem, I want to realise the bad I have done and accept the bad that has been done to me etc.
>>2674591
Try a low dose of mushrooms Benny, I can't guarantee it but in the morning you may feel like a new man.

>>2674720
You have to realise that everyone experiences things differently. You saw not many colours and felt retarded, that's your trip, not everyone feels that way. You don't even know if it was definitely lsd, you don't know how strong it was. It sounds like you did a very low dose. The higher the dose, the more intense the visualizations. I've been in my room with my friend, both of us tripping, he was on two tabs, he thought my room was full of water and we were swimming around. He completely lost it though, got caught in a time loop, kept on repeating the same things over and over again for hours. I had to hold his hand for a hour while he rambled and I myself was tripping very hard. This shit can happen

People that havn't tried acid, be prepared for maybe completely losing your shit, it happens. My friend had tripped many times but this time was just a lot stronger than usual. We smoke a lot of weed and he thinks that's what put him over the edge. When he came back to "reality" he said it was amazing, I just had to deal with his husk self left behind while he was off where ever he went.

It's strange you say you felt like a retard because pretty much everyone I've tripped with come up with very interesting ideas, are much better to play music with(i usually jam on trips) write very interesting things and are very clear headed. I've never done lsd and not been clearheaded, I don't feel like I'm drunk, can't control my thoughts and body. On lsd I feel like I'm ultra clearheaded, I feel much smarter and everyone I've talked to on lsd seem much smarter, more open minded.

>>2675889
I don't want to offend you but it could just be that you aren't introspective enough or something similar, some people just act like idiots on lsd and they usually are sort of like this sober, less artistic sort of people.

I've found my drawings, paintings on acid are of a much, much higher quality.

There are many factors with lsd. Because you had one experience that wasn't very good, doesn't right off lsd. I think if you had a higher dosage and were with some interesting people, artistic people, you would see it can be a very interesting experiece. I've had shit lsd and felt barley anything, you were probably just unlucky and got a dud.

Broke the deep lethargy within my head
A heavy thunder, so that I upstarted,
Like to a person who by force is wakened;
And round about I moved my rested eyes,
Uprisen erect, and steadfastly I gazed,
To recognise the place wherein I was.
True is it, that upon the verge I found me
Of the abysmal valley dolorous,
That gathers thunder of infinite ululations.
Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous,
So that by fixing on its depths my sight
Nothing whatever I discerned therein.
"Let us descend now into the blind world,"
Began the Poet, pallid utterly;
"I will be first, and thou shalt second be."
And I, who of his colour was aware,
Said: "How shall I come, if thou art afraid,
Who'rt wont to be a comfort to my fears?"
And he to me: "The anguish of the people
Who are below here in my face depicts

That pity which for terror thou hast taken.
Let us go on, for the long way impels us."
Thus he went in, and thus he made me enter
The foremost circle that surrounds the abyss.
There, as it seemed to me from listening,
Were lamentations none, but only sighs,
That tremble made the everlasting air.
And this arose from sorrow without torment,
Which the crowds had, that many were and great,
Of infants and of women and of men.
To me the Master good: "Thou dost not ask
What spirits these, which thou beholdest, are?
Now will I have thee know, ere thou go farther,
That they sinned not; and if they merit had,
'Tis not enough, because they had not baptism
Which is the portal of the Faith thou holdest;
And if they were before Christianity,
In the right manner they adored not God;
And among such as these am I myself.
For such defects, and not for other guilt,
Lost are we and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire."
Great grief seized on my heart when this I heard,

Because some people of much worthiness
I knew, who in that Limbo were suspended.
"Tell me, my Master, tell me, thou my Lord,"
Began I, with desire of being certain
Of that Faith which o'ercometh every error,
"Came any one by his own merit hence,
Or by another's, who was blessed thereafter?"
And he, who understood my covert speech,
Replied: "I was a novice in this state,
When I saw hither come a Mighty One,
With sign of victory incoronate.
Hence he drew forth the shade of the First Parent,
And that of his son Abel, and of Noah,
Of Moses the lawgiver, and the obedient
Abraham, patriarch, and David, king,
Israel with his father and his children,
And Rachel, for whose sake he did so much,
And others many, and he made them blessed;
And thou must know, that earlier than these
Never were any human spirits saved."
We ceased not to advance because he spake,

But still were passing onward through the forest,
The forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.
Not very far as yet our way had gone
This side the summit, when I saw a fire
That overcame a hemisphere of darkness.
We were a little distant from it still,
But not so far that I in part discerned not
That honourable people held that place.
"O thou who honourest every art and science,
Who may these be, which such great honour have,
That from the fashion of the rest it parts them?"
And he to me: "The honourable name,
That sounds of them above there in thy life,
Wins grace in Heaven, that so advances them."
In the mean time a voice was heard by me:
"All honour be to the pre-eminent Poet;
His shade returns again, that was departed."

After the voice had ceased and quiet was,
Four mighty shades I saw approaching us;
Semblance had they nor sorrowful nor glad.
To say to me began my gracious Master:
"Him with that falchion in his hand behold,
Who comes before the three, even as their lord.
That one is Homer, Poet sovereign;
He who comes next is Horace, the satirist;
The third is Ovid, and the last is Lucan.
Because to each of these with me applies
The name that solitary voice proclaimed,
They do me honour, and in that do well."
Thus I beheld assemble the fair school
Of that lord of the song pre-eminent,
Who o'er the others like an eagle soars.
When they together had discoursed somewhat,
They turned to me with signs of salutation,
And on beholding this, my Master smiled;

And more of honour still, much more, they did me,
In that they made me one of their own band;
So that the sixth was I, 'mid so much wit.
Thus we went on as far as to the light,
Things saying 'tis becoming to keep silent,
As was the saying of them where I was.
We came unto a noble castle's foot,
Seven times encompassed with lofty walls,
Defended round by a fair rivulet;
This we passed over even as firm ground;
Through portals seven I entered with these Sages;
We came into a meadow of fresh verdure.
People were there with solemn eyes and slow,
Of great authority in their countenance;
They spake but seldom, and with gentle voices.
Thus we withdrew ourselves upon one side
Into an opening luminous and lofty,
So that they all of them were visible.
There opposite, upon the green enamel,
Were pointed out to me the mighty spirits,

Whom to have seen I feel myself exalted.
I saw Electra with companions many,
'Mongst whom I knew both Hector and Aeneas,
Caesar in armour with gerfalcon eyes;
I saw Camilla and Penthesilea
On the other side, and saw the King Latinus,
Who with Lavinia his daughter sat;
I saw that Brutus who drove Tarquin forth,
Lucretia, Julia, Marcia, and Cornelia,
And saw alone, apart, the Saladin.
When I had lifted up my brows a little,
The Master I beheld of those who know,
Sit with his philosophic family.
All gaze upon him, and all do him honour.
There I beheld both Socrates and Plato,
Who nearer him before the others stand;
Democritus, who puts the world on chance,
Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales,

Zeno, Empedocles, and Heraclitus;
Of qualities I saw the good collector,
Hight Dioscorides; and Orpheus saw I,
Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca,
Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy,
Galen, Hippocrates, and Avicenna,
Averroes, who the great Comment made.
I cannot all of them pourtray in full,
Because so drives me onward the long theme,
That many times the word comes short of fact.
The sixfold company in two divides;
Another way my sapient Guide conducts me
Forth from the quiet to the air that trembles;
And to a place I come where nothing shines.

Thus I descended out of the first circle
Down to the second, that less space begirds,
And so much greater dole, that goads to wailing.
There standeth Minos horribly, and snarls;
Examines the transgressions at the entrance;
Judges, and sends according as he girds him.
I say, that when the spirit evil-born
Cometh before him, wholly it confesses;
And this discriminator of transgressions
Seeth what place in Hell is meet for it;
Girds himself with his tail as many times
As grades he wishes it should be thrust down.
Always before him many of them stand;
They go by turns each one unto the judgment;
They speak, and hear, and then are downward hurled.
"O thou, that to this dolorous hostelry
Comest," said Minos to me, when he saw me,
Leaving the practice of so great an office,
"Look how thou enterest, and in whom thou trustest;
Let not the portal's amplitude deceive thee."
And unto him my Guide: "Why criest thou too?
Do not impede his journey fate-ordained;

It is so willed there where is power to do
That which is willed; and ask no further question."
And now begin the dolesome notes to grow
Audible unto me; now am I come
There where much lamentation strikes upon me.
I came into a place mute of all light,
Which bellows as the sea does in a tempest,
If by opposing winds 't is combated.
The infernal hurricane that never rests
Hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine;
Whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them.
When they arrive before the precipice,
There are the shrieks, the plaints, and the laments,
There they blaspheme the puissance divine.
I understood that unto such a torment
The carnal malefactors were condemned,
Who reason subjugate to appetite.
And as the wings of starlings bear them on
In the cold season in large band and full,
So doth that blast the spirits maledict;
It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them;
No hope doth comfort them for evermore,
Not of repose, but even of lesser pain.

And as the cranes go chanting forth their lays,
Making in air a long line of themselves,
So saw I coming, uttering lamentations,
Shadows borne onward by the aforesaid stress.
Whereupon said I: "Master, who are those
People, whom the black air so castigates?"
"The first of those, of whom intelligence
Thou fain wouldst have," then said he unto me,
"The empress was of many languages.
To sensual vices she was so abandoned,
That lustful she made licit in her law,
To remove the blame to which she had been led.
She is Semiramis, of whom we read
That she succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse;
She held the land which now the Sultan rules.
The next is she who killed herself for love,
And broke faith with the ashes of Sichaeus;
Then Cleopatra the voluptuous."
Helen I saw, for whom so many ruthless
Seasons revolved; and saw the great Achilles,
Who at the last hour combated with Love.

Paris I saw, Tristan; and more than a thousand
Shades did he name and point out with his finger,
Whom Love had separated from our life.
After that I had listened to my Teacher,
Naming the dames of eld and cavaliers,
Pity prevailed, and I was nigh bewildered.
And I began: "O Poet, willingly
Speak would I to those two, who go together,
And seem upon the wind to be so light."
And, he to me: "Thou'lt mark, when they shall be
Nearer to us; and then do thou implore them
By love which leadeth them, and they will come."
Soon as the wind in our direction sways them,
My voice uplift I: "O ye weary souls!
Come speak to us, if no one interdicts it."
As turtle-doves, called onward by desire,
With open and steady wings to the sweet nest
Fly through the air by their volition borne,
So came they from the band where Dido is,
Approaching us athwart the air malign,
So strong was the affectionate appeal.
"O living creature gracious and benignant,

Who visiting goest through the purple air
Us, who have stained the world incarnadine,
If were the King of the Universe our friend,
We would pray unto him to give thee peace,
Since thou hast pity on our woe perverse.
Of what it pleases thee to hear and speak,
That will we hear, and we will speak to you,
While silent is the wind, as it is now.
Sitteth the city, wherein I was born,
Upon the sea-shore where the Po descends
To rest in peace with all his retinue.
Love, that on gentle heart doth swiftly seize,
Seized this man for the person beautiful
That was ta'en from me, and still the mode offends me.
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,
That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me;
Love has conducted us unto one death;
Caina waiteth him who quenched our life!"
These words were borne along from them to us.
As soon as I had heard those souls tormented,
I bowed my face, and so long held it down
Until the Poet said to me: "What thinkest?"

When I made answer, I began: "Alas!
How many pleasant thoughts, how much desire,
Conducted these unto the dolorous pass!"
Then unto them I turned me, and I spake,
And I began: "Thine agonies, Francesca,
Sad and compassionate to weeping make me.
But tell me, at the time of those sweet sighs,
By what and in what manner Love conceded,
That you should know your dubious desires?"
And she to me: "There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.
But, if to recognise the earliest root
Of love in us thou hast so great desire,
I will do even as he who weeps and speaks.
One day we reading were for our delight
Of Launcelot, how Love did him enthral.
Alone we were and without any fear.
Full many a time our eyes together drew
That reading, and drove the colour from our faces

But one point only was it that o'ercame us.
When as we read of the much-longed-for smile
Being by such a noble lover kissed,
This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,
Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.
Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it.
That day no farther did we read therein."
And all the while one spirit uttered this,
The other one did weep so, that, for pity,
I swooned away as if I had been dying,
And fell, even as a dead body falls.

At the return of consciousness, that closed
Before the pity of those two relations,
Which utterly with sadness had confused me,
New torments I behold, and new tormented
Around me, whichsoever way I move,
And whichsoever way I turn, and gaze.
In the third circle am I of the rain
Eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy;
Its law and quality are never new.
Huge hail, and water sombre-hued, and snow,
Athwart the tenebrous air pour down amain;
Noisome the earth is, that receiveth this.
Cerberus, monster cruel and uncouth,
With his three gullets like a dog is barking
Over the people that are there submerged.
Red eyes he has, and unctuous beard and black,
And belly large, and armed with claws his hands;
He rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them.